HASHTAG HEROES VS. DISINFO DYSTOPIA: THE LEFT, THE RIGHT, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM
DEEN FREELON is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His research covers two major areas
of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science
and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored
or co-authored more than 30 journal articles, book chapters and public reports, in
addition to co-editing one scholarly book. He has served as principal investigator on
grants from the Knight Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute
of Peace. He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability
for content analysis (ReCal), analyze large-scale network data from social media
(TSM), and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public). He formerly taught at
American University in Washington, D.C.